THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
Vote in the second round of our Best Literary Film Adaptations bracket to help your favorites make it to the top! | Lit Hub
Series editor Jenny Minton Quigley on Tommy Orange, Chekhov, and the winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini discuss interim language: “The time has come to accept that one’s voice might be fractured, imperfect, cacophonous and a bit unhinged.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
Vicky Osterweil explores labor conflict, white supremacy, and how an animator’s strike led to the making of Disney’s Song of the South. | Lit Hub Film
To continue our series in honor of National Poetry Month, we recommend reading Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly.” | Lit Hub Poetry
The 22 new books out today include titles by Lena Dunham, Maria Semple, Solvej Balle, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“I’ve come to find it healing: the act of spinning past mistakes into beauty.” Miranda Shulman on the similarities between knitting and writing. | Lit Hub Craft
Patrick Cottrell, Tom Perrotta, Jim Windolf, and more authors answer our questions about literary life. | Lit Hub In Conversation
What Petrarch can teach us about envy: “Invidia is a sin that thrives in the shadows. The most upsetting thing for Petrarch was not so much these four friends’ condemnations, as the secretive and sniping way they went about them.” | Lit Hub History
“A thousand holy golden female voices hailing, lifting up, un-questioning, bright, pushed with a joyful breath that renews and renews and renews itself.” Read from Julia Langbein’s new novel, Dear Monica Lewinsky. | Lit Hub Fiction
Today in ew, gross, get it away from me: Tucker Carlson is launching an imprint with Skyhorse and is set to publish books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos. | The Guardian
Matthew Wills considers the significance of Oscar Wilde’s hair evolution. | JSTOR Daily
“Ondaatje’s whole career has tended toward this condition of late collection, of a memory that lacks a story, and sustains itself only on sensoria and images.” Ben Libman on Michael Ondaatje’s poetry. | Poetry
Dominique J. Baker and Christopher T. Bennett ask, who actually gets Guggenheims? | Public Books
Scott W. Stern on Trevor Jackson’s The Insatiable Machine and imagining alternatives to capitalism. | The New Republic
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